Dry Brushing with Artists' Acrylics

What you will need:

• Crescent Watercolor Board
• Artists' Acrylic e.g. Liquitex, Matisse or similar
• Butcher Tray

Here are the materials I'll be using for my painting of Daniel: Crescent Watercolor Board, an assortment of Liquitex and Matisse Acrylics, which are layed out on an Enamel Butcher Tray on folded, wet paper towels.

Here I've laid in a background acrylic wash of phthalo green, red oxide and burnt sienna, using a Hake brush.

Using reference, I start to pick out the negative shapes behind the large Macrocarpa Tree.

I'm working with the negative shapes, using red-orange colors to establish a complimentary color scheme.

Here, I'm starting to define the light areas on Daniel with a dry-brush technique. I'm using a variety of DAS Series 9000 brushes. This is a hard wearing synthetic bristle brush.

This is the finished painting after I have glazed the entire painting with Liquitex Yellow Orange Azo, to enhance the color harmony.